"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
"I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works."
"It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."
"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions."