Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

The less routine the more life.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.