Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.