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

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.

The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore, finds himself inclined to envy another, should remember that he knows not the real condition which he desires to obtain, but is certain that by indulging a vicious passion, he must lessen that happiness which he thinks already too sparingly bestowed.