Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness

There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

One more drink and I'll be under the host.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.