Appearances have very little to do with happiness.

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.