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"No, never, never! I am sick of mankind, not froainst ue, will secure e; for it is not the active, but the indolent eary; it is not the temperate, but the pampered who are capricious"
"Is your sister, Sir, acquainted with this change in your fortune and opinions?"
"Poor girl, no! She and her unhappywith my enterprizes and misfortunes Even yet they would sacrifice whatever they possess to enable ame so often lost; but I will not abuse their affection, nor suffer theain to be slaves to my caprices, nor dupes to their own delusive expectations I have sent them word I am happy; I have not yet told them hohere I fear much the affliction of their disappointment, and, for a while, shall conceal froraceful, and grieve at as cruel"
"And is it not cruel?" said Cecilia, "is labour indeed so sweet? and can you seriously derive happiness from what all others consider as misery?"
"Not sweet," answered he, "in itself; but sweet, et all the world; my projects for the future, ue is overpowered by personal; I toil till I require rest, and that rest which nature, not luxury demands, leads not to idle meditation, but to sound, heavy, necessary sleep I awake the next ain till ht by the sa insensibility"
"And if this," cried Cecilia, "is the life of happiness, why have we so s of the poor, and why so eternally do we hear of their hardships and distress?"
"They have known no other life They are strangers, therefore, to the felicity of their lot Had they h their fancy with hope, and looked forith expectation of enjoyreat, and offered with profusion adulation for their abilities, yet, even when starving, been offered nothing else!--had they seen an attentive circle wait all its entertainotten as soon as out of sight, and perceived theer buffoons!--Oh had they known and felt provocations such as these, how gladly would their resentful spirits turn fro race, and hoould they respect that noble and ating snares, and enables theratitude they abhor! Without the contrast of vice, virtue unloved may be lovely; without the experience of misery, happiness is simply a dull privation of evil"