"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you"

"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

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

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it"

"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"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion"

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"

"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"