Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.