Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
Inquiries into the heart are not for man.
That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.