Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.