Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Life loves the liver of it.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

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.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

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