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

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

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.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.