The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.- Samuel Johnson
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
