Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

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.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

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

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.