Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.

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

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

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.