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

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.

The great source of pleasure is variety.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.