I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

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.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

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