The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
Applause abates diligence.
They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.