The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
