Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.
But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,--- O! its quite beyond what you can understand.