“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.”
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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 world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
