You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.

If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.

Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!

I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.