To think the world therefore a general Bedlam or place of madmen and oneself a physician is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination and the way to happiness.
Your enjoyment of the world is never right till every morning you awake in...
On a soap happiness never lasts for very long!
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds as it amuses the fancy as it improves the understanding and as it strengthens virtue.