Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.