I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.