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

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

Nothing is to be expected from the workman whose tools are for ever to be sought

Seldom any splendid story is wholly true.

Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end. Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use, but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense. In the state of future perfection, to which we all aspire, there will be pleasure without danger, and security without restraint.