Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

Nature never gives everything at once.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

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

In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.