The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.