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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

The world has no room for cowards.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Ketika tiba giliran saya untuk meletakkan senjata saya, saya akan melakukannya dengan rasa syukur dan kelelahan, dan apa pun takdir saya setelah itu, saya akan senang berbaring dengan ayah saya sebagai penghormatan. Setidaknya itu manusiawi, jika bukan ilahi.

Hanya ada satu perbedaan antara umur panjang dan makan malam yang menyenangkan. Pada makan malam, makanan manis keluar belakangan.