Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure; the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites; and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

Hunger is never delicate.