Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.