“Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.”
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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
