Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.

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

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

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.