Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.