Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten.

Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.