Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.