I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
Hope is a working-man's dream.
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
Home is where the heart is.