The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.
We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
There are no rules for felicity.
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.