Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.