Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.