Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

These small things -- nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness -- are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.