The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.

It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.