“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”

“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.”

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”

“It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.”

“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”

“You're a bitter man," said Candide.That's because I've lived," said Martin.”

“Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.”