The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?