Let us have Wine and Woman, Mirth and Laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.

Everybody knows how to weep, but it takes a fine texture of mind to know thoroughly how to enjoy the bright and happy things of life.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.