The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.