Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.