Virtue Is Too Often Merely

Where Secrecy Or Mystery Begins, Vice Or Roguery Is Not Far Off.

Subordination Tends Greatly To Human Happiness. Were We All Upon An Equality, We Should Have No Other Enjoyment Than Mere Animal Pleasure.

The Fountain Of Contentment Must Spring Up In The Mind.

The Happiest Part Of A Man's Life Is What He Passes Lying Awake In Bed In The Morning.

Forgetfulness Is Necessary To Remembrance. Ideas Are Retained By Renovation Of That Impression Which Time Is Always Wearing Away,and Which New Images Are Striving To Obliterate. If Useless Thoughts Could Be Expelled From The Mind, All The Valuable Parts Of Our Knowledge Would More Frequently Recur, And Every Recurrence Would Reinstate Them In Their Former Place.