A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.