“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.”

“The world we live in is but thickened light.”

“It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.”

“Let the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.”

“Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.”

“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”