"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
"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."
"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."
"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent."