life
“In trouble to be troubled is to have your trouble doubled.”
“The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.”
“What is this world of ours? … a fleeting symmetry; a momentary order.”
“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
“Sleeping on a plank has one advantage — it encourages early rising.”
“My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar.”
“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
“To live without hope is to cease to live.”
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
“I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.”
“To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.”
“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”
“I wear the chain I forged in life.”
“Staying as I am, one foot in one country and the other in another, I find my condition very happy, in that it is free.”
“The best of life is when we dare to live again like children.”
“What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.”
“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.”
“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”