Exercise is labor without weariness.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.