He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.