“Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.”

“Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.”

“On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”

“Si l’on est différent, il est fatal qu’on soit seul.”

“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”

“And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”