“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.”

“The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.”

“Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.”

“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”

“Mankind are always happy for having happiness. So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it. ”

“we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today”

“No furniture is so charming as books.”