The First Recipe For Happiness Is: Avoid

The Difficult Part In An Argument Is Not To Defend One's Opinion But Rather To Know It.

The Reading Of A Fine Book Is An Uninterrupted Dialogue In Which The Book Speaks And Our Soul Replies.

Novelty, The Most Potent Of All Attractions, Is Also The Most Perishable.

Often We Allow Ourselves To Be Upset By Small Things We Should Despise And Forget. We Lose Many Irreplaceable Hours Brooding Over Grievances That, In A Year's Time, Will Be Forgotten By Us And By Everybody. No, Let Us Devote Our Life To Worthwhile Actions And Feelings, To Great Thoughts, Real Affections And Enduring Undertakings.

The Clear And Simple Words Of Common Usage Are Always Better Than Those Of Erudition. The Jargon Of The Philosophers Not Seldom Conceals An Absence Of Thought.