Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief.

Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain.

It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and – something that may surprise you more – it takes just as long to learn how to die.

Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!

Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.

...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

Neutrality as a lasting principle is an evidence of weakness.

Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear

The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.

With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet.

[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.

Then everyone can call you Six.” “Four and Six,” I say.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

We who are left, how shall we look again Happily on the sun or feel the rain Without remembering how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?