I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.