After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.
Academic life is a mad hazard.[Das akademische Leben ist also ein wildes Hasard.]
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
A little simplification would be the first step towards rational living, I think.
A life of nothings, nothing-worth, from that first nothing ere his birth to that last nothing under earth!
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving…
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
A Death blow is a Life blow to Some Who till they died, did not alive become — Who had they lived, had died, but when They died, Vitality begun.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
