To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.