To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

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

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.