Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting

The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators

In pain you can be more meditative than in pleasure.”

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

The fact is what is seen,what is proven not what is believed