In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.
He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.
The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.
Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.