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.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and 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.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

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

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.