It is harder to cut our gains than to cut our losses.

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

To some people the impossible is impossible.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.