Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

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.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

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