Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.

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

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

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.