Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
The great source of pleasure is variety.
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.