The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

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

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.