Love can be founded upon Nature only.
Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.
The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.