Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.