It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.