He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.