People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.

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

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

He that has too much to do will do something wrong.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.