No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.