Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure." "I cannot give you credit for any philosophy of the kind.

Your retrospections must be so totally void of reproach, that the contentment arising from them is not of philosophy, but, what is much better, of innocence.

But with me, it is not so.

Painful recollections will intrude which cannot, which ought not, to be repelled.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.