To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.
The secret to a happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it?
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
