In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

There's place and means for every man alive.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

What goes up must come down.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.