It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

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

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.