It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.