I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Take care of each other.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.