It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

Reason and truth will prevail at last