Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.