It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
people
But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.
gamegamestso-life
Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
deathmantso-lifeworth
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
businesstso-life
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
war
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
guiltmindtheend
That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.
theendtso-love
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
circumstancesmanworkworry
Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
man
Tomorrow is no man's gift.
giftsman
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.
lightpurpose
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
imaginationtso-love
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
distancetso-love
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
friendshipmen
She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
racewomen