Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
Reason and truth will prevail at last
Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.
The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.