The English Are Busy Folk; They Have

If One Only Wished To Be Happy, This Could Be Easily Accomplished; But We Wish To Be Happier That Other People, And This Is Always Difficult, For We Believe Others To Be Happier Than They Are. You Are Comparing Your Lot With An Ideal Which Is Of Course Better And Therefore You Feel Worse

To Love To Read Is To Exchange Hours Of Ennui For Hours Of Delight.

When Virtue Is Banished, Ambition Invades The Minds Of Those Who Are Disposed To Receive It And Avarice Possesses The Whole Community.

Lunch Kills Half Of Paris, Supper The Other Half.

As Soon As Man Enters Into A State Of Society He Loses The Sense Of His Weakness; Equality Ceases, And Then Commences The State Of War.