Affectation Naturally Counterfeits Those Excellences Which Are

We Have Always Pretensions To Fame Which, In Our Own Hearts, We Know To Be Disputable.

The King Who Makes War On His Enemies Tenderly Distresses His Subjects Most Cruelly.

Few Enterprises Of Great Labor Or Hazard Would Be Undertaken If We Had Not The Power Of Magnifying The Advantages We Expect From Them.

When A Man Says He Had Pleasure With A Woman He Does Not Mean Conversation.

The Mind Is Never Satisfied With The Objects Immediately Before It, But Is Always Breaking Away From The Present Moment, And Losing Itself In Schemes Of Future Felicity... The Natural Flights Of The Human Mind Are Not From Pleasure To Pleasure, But From Hope To Hope.