A hedge between keeps friendship green.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.