Change is not made without inconvenience.
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.
Was ever poet so trusted before?
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.