Life and Existence

If the stars should appear just one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!

It is good enough to talk of God while we are sitting here after a nice breakfast and looking forward to a nicer luncheon, but how am I to talk of God to the millions who have to go without two meals a day? To them God can only appear as bread and butter.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

I am an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.

I am an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough.

You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough.

I love best to have each thing in its season, doing without it at all other times.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

Butterflies count not months but moments, and yet have time enough.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o’clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o’clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Time marks us while we are marking time.