As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.