“There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.”

“In love we often doubt what we most believe.”

“We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them.”

“In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.”

“We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore”.”

“We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire”

“Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.”