An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.