The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]
Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.