Life Affords No Higher Pleasure Than That

When Speculation Has Done Its Worst, Two And Two Still Make Four.

A Man Seldom Thinks With More Earnestness Of Anything Than He Does Of His Dinner.

I Know Not Anything More Pleasant, Or More Instructive, Than To Compare Experience With Expectation, Or To Register From Time To Time The Difference Between Idea And Reality. It Is By This Kind Of Observation That We Grow Daily Less Liable To Be Disappointed.

Labor, If It Were Not Necessary For Existence, Would Be Indispensable For The Happiness Of Man.

There Are People Whom One Should Like Very Well To Drop, But Would Not Wish To Be Dropped By.