Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.

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

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

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

An exotic and irrational entertainment.