Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.
There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.
All women’s dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
Such is human psychology that if we don’t express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.
When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.
Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.
A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o’clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.