Years do not always make age.

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.

We must have a passion in life.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.