They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.