Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by the man of mature years?

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

There are but three events which concern men: birth, life, and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.