The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.