“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”

“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.”

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.”

“You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!”

“It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.”

“Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.”