We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
Esteem never makes ingrates.
Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.
The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.
Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.