one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may be said of nearly every tale of mingled fact and legend which has been handed down to us through the ages.

Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.

... nothing, of course, is ever so strange as love to the one who is not a lover.

while nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.

This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you are miserable because nothing really matters.