The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.

Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.

That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.