Politeness Is Fictitious Benevolence.

Irresolution And Mutability Are Often The Faults Of Men Whose Views Are Wide, And Whose Imagination Is Vigorous And Excursive.

The Misery Of Man Proceeds Not From Any Single Crush Of Overwhelming Evil, But From Small Vexations Continually Repeated.

Of The Present State, Whatever It Be, We Feel And Are Forced To Confess The Misery; Yet When The Same State Is Again At A Distance, Imagination Paints It As Desirable.

Authors And Lovers Always Suffer Some Infatuation, From Which Only Absence Can Set Them Free.

Thought Is Always Troublesome To Him Who Lives Without His Own Approbation.