The quality of life is determined by its activities.

The actuality of thought is life.

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.