Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.

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.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.