What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.