“A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.”
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
