But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.