Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.

There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.