“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh
“The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount