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

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

“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.”

“Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”

“If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.”