"I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there"

"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting"

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"Business is the salt of life"

"As soon as there is life there is danger"

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

"There is more to life than increasing its speed"