“I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.”

“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.”

“Sir, there is nothing too little for so little creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”

“Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.”

“Nature has given woman so much power that the law cannot afford to give her more.”

“Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.”

“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”