Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.