I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage.

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.