When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.