Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

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

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

What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.