What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
I am not young enough to know everything.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
History is the devil's scripture.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
