To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.