The youth is better than the old age of friendship.

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.