Ten
Only the fool and the very young expect happiness. The wise merely hope to be interested, at least not to be bored, in their passage through this world. Nothing is so interesting as love and grief, and the one involves the other.
Eleven
One of the commonest characteristics of the successful man is his idleness, his immense capacity for wasting time.
Twelve
People who regard literary taste simply as an accomplishment, and literature simply as a distraction, will never truly succeed, either in acquiring the accomplishment or in using it half-acquired as a distraction.
Thirteen
The finest souls have their reactions, their rebellions against wise reason.
Fourteen
My theory is that politeness, instead of decreasing with intimacy—should increase! And when I say “Politeness” I mean common, superficial politeness. I don’t mean the deep-down sort of thing that you can only detect with a divining-rod.