If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

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

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

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

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.