It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
Time steals away without any inconvenience.
The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.