“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”

“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover”

“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”

“The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.”

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.”

“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”

“To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.”