“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours
“There are only two tragedies in life. one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough
“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself
“How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
“Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, the house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square
“As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die
“Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.
“I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals
“Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them