Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

Harness the imagination, for she is the whole of happiness.

Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first day they give pleasure to the owner, but in all the rest to the others: what belongs to another rejoices doubly, because it is without the risk of going stale and with the satisfaction of freshness. . . the possession of things not only diminishes their enjoyment, but augments their annoyance, whether shared or not shared.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.