“Pleasure is seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.”

“Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.”

“I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules”

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”

“He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.”

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”