reflection Quotes

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.