You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

In old times, men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith; in later times, they used the objects of faith that they might show their powers …

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

That Action is best which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that worst, which, in like manner, occasions misery.

I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with mor…