What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

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