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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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.
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.