Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
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