A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.