If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.