We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.