Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
Business before pleasure.
Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.
Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.