“Regret is the most tiresome of companions.”

“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”

“Regret is her companion and the one who whispers to her often. She has even let hope die and that brings about despair.”

“Inexorable self, carried like the superfluous and tiresome piece of luggage which it is impossible to lose; franked with the customs’ stamp of every frontier, retrieved exasperatingly from the disaster where everything else is lost, companion of the dislocation of cancelled sailings and missed connections, witness of every catastrophe, survivor of all voyages and situations…I”

“such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.”

“The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass...all of these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted lovingly, are most pleasing to God's Goodness.”