To know nothing is the happiest life.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.