The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.