Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.

Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.

It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.