Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.