Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

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

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.