The Most Solid Pleasure In This Life

Boredom Is The Most Sublime Of All Human Emotions Because It Expresses The Fact That The Human Spirit, In A Certain Sense, Is Greater Than The Entire Universe. Boredom Is An Expression Of A Profound Despair At Not Finding Anything That Can Satisfy The Soul's Boundless Needs.

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.

Irresolute Men Are Sometimes Very Persistent In Their Undertakings, Because If They Give Up Their Designs They Would Have To Make A Second Resolution.

There's No Greater Sign Of Being A Poor Philosopher And Wise Man Than Wanting All Of Life To Be Wise And Philosophical.

The Old Man, Especially If He Is In Society In The Privacy Of His Thoughts, Though He May Protest The Opposite, Never Stops Believing That, Through Some Singular Exception Of The Universal Rule, He Can In Some Unknown And Inexplicable Way Still Make An Impression On Women.