I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.”
“If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.”