Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it; but likely enough it is gone the moment we say to ourselves, “Here it is!” like the chest of gold that treasure-seekers find.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the American Note-Books (1879)
quicker that way too
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
—Sydney Smith (1771-1845), essayist and clergyman, quoted by Hesketh Pearson in The Smith of Smiths: Being the Life, Wit and Humour of Sydney Smith (1934)
—Sydney Smith (1771-1845), essayist and clergyman, quoted by Hesketh Pearson in The Smith of Smiths: Being the Life, Wit and Humour of Sydney Smith (1934)
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