The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. - Samuel Butler

I do not greatly care whether I have been right or wrong on any point, but I care a good deal about knowing which of the two I have been.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

I know not why, but all the noblest arts hold in perfection but for a very little moment. They soon reach a height from which they begin to decline, and when they have begun to decline it is a pity that they cannot be knocked on the head; for an art is like a living organism — better dead than dying.