“Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied with every thing that nature can demand, than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.”

Showing how abundance creates new wants beyond basic need · Idler No. 30

• Desire
• Nature

“Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection.”

Calling for balance between overconfidence and excessive dread · Rambler No. 29

• Despair
• Hope

“The brightest hours of prosperity have their clouds, and the stream of life, if it is not ruffled by obstructions, will grow putrid by stagnation.”

Suggesting that both difficulty and movement are inseparable from a living life · Rambler No. 165

• Joy
• Time