:we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

:the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his …

I have not been afraid of excess: excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.