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

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

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript