"It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations."
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
"To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness."
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."