True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.