We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.