Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship

I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable.

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may em

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.