To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its function without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind

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

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts