Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.