Excerpt from Companions of My Solitude: Essays Written in the Intervals of Business
The all seek happiness so eagerly, that in the pursuit we often lose that joyous sense of existence, and those quiet daily pleasures, the value of which our pride alone prevents us from acknowledging.
It has been said with some meaning, that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.
Those who never philosophised until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.
The unfortunate Ladurlad did not desire the sleep that for ever fled his weary eyelids with more earnestness than most people seek the deep slumber of a decided opinion.
The business of the head is to form a good heart, and not merely to rule an evil one, as is generally imagined.
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