We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

There is no wealth but life.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.