Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.