We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.

No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.