Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.