LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetite….

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love..

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven..

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are..

Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase ap….

Handsome is that handsome does..

Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of incre….

...the act of eating,which hath by several wise men been considered as extremely mean and derogatory from the philosophic dignity, must be in some me….

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend….

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good..

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue..

A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, i….

The man who is wantonly profuse of his promises ought to sink his credit as much as a tradesman would by uttering a great number of promissory notes ….

Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy ….

The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some o….

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequen….

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotte….

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good..

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit..

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeym….