Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.
Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.
Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.
To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.