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.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.