"I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during 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"

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

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

"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 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"

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