Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present
A scholar knows no boredom.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.