The way to know life is to love many things.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

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.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.