To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

A kiss may ruin a human life

Do not wait for life to be picturesque, but try and see life under picturesque conditions.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.

Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.

Are there not books that can make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years?

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.