Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
The best of life is conversation.
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.
My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.
Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.
All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
Life is our dictionary.
All life is an experiment.
We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
Life is too short to waste.
My life is not an apology, but a life.
Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.
The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.
Life is a search after power.
The only prudence in life is concentration.
Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.
Life is a series of surprises.
Life is to be lived, not controlled.