It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.

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

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.