"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century" — William Lyon Phelps

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

Source: Sense and Sensibility (1811)

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future

Source: A Woman of No Importance (1893)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

Source: The Will to Believe (1897)

Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat, the mist in my face

Source: Prospice (1864)

William Lyon Phelps Quote