What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

Nothing is sure in London, except expense.

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.