The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.
Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.
Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.
Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.
The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.
Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.