Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.