I might give my life for a friend, but he'd better not ask me to do up a parcel.

They say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.