Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.

The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.