If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.