A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.

For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

Life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.