He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.