Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatt… - Samuel Johnson

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Pleasure is seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Every man, who proposes to grow eminent by learning, should carry in his mind, at once, the difficulty of excellence, and the force of industry; and remember that fame is not conferred but as the recompense of labour, and that labour, vigorously continued, has not often failed of its reward.

Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.