A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

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

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.