Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.

Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy.