Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
Love is reducing the universe to one being.
Art needs no spur beyond itself.
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.