No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.
Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.
Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.
Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ...
youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.
Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.