"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour"

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music

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

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics

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