He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.