Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

Applause abates diligence.

The great source of pleasure is variety.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.