“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment”

“Life is a struggle, but not a warfare”

“The things we really know are not the things we have merely read about or heard about, but the things we have lived, have experienced, have been sensible of”

“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again”

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”

“My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it”