True friendship is never serene.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink.

Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.

It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.