Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!
People who are too much concerned with little things usually become incapable of big ones.[Ceux qui s’appliquent trop aux petites choses deviennent ordinairement incapables des grandes.]
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.[ὅσῳ χαλεπώτερα ἐπιφέρουσιν αἱ ὀργαὶ καὶ λῦπαι αἱἐπὶ τοῖς τοιούτοις, ἤπερ αὐτά ἐστιν ἐφ οἷς ὀργιζόμεθα καὶλυπούμεθα.]
Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, the people said, a weed.
Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is? A sport!
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Like Men and Women Shadows walk Upon the Hills Today – With here and there a mighty Bow Or trailing Courtesy To Neighbors doubtless of their own Not quickened to perceive Minuter landscape as Ourselves And Boroughs where we live –
Life is never fair. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.[to Sir Robert Chiltern]
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
It is not the past that matters but the future.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
