Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
The dangers gather as the treasures rise.