Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.