But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their way, but we, poor mortals, in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.

There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.