Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.