A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety between the life of an author and his writings... Those whom the appearance of virtue or the evidence of genius has tempted to a nearer knowledge of the writer, in whose performances they may be found, have indeed had frequent reason to repent their curiosity.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.