Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.

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

Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized a person of supposing himself obliged literally to pray continually; had the madness turned the opposite way, and the person thought it a crime ever to pray, it might not improbably have continued unobserved.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.