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.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

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.

Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.