The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.