It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. |
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. |
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. |
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature |
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm. |
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization |
The clear sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it |
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them |
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced. |
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced. |
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth |
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. |
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. |
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth |
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join |