Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.