It Is In Vain That

Sorrow Is Never More Sorrowful Than When It Jests At Its Own Misery.

Example Has More Followers Than Reason. We Unconsciously Imitate What Pleases Us, And Approximate To The Characters We Most Admire.

Youth Is Too Tumultuous For Felicity; Old Age Too Insecure For Happiness. The Period Most Favorable To Enjoyment, In A Vigorous, Fortunate, And Generous Life, Is That Between Forty And Sixty.

It Is Some Compensation For Great Evils, That They Enforce Great Lessons.

We Take Life Too Seriously: The Office Of Wit Is To Correct This Tendency.