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.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Business is the salt of life.
Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Art is the proper task of life.
Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Superstition is the poetry of life.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
