Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.