Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly
When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed