“It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.”

“What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.”

“We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.”

“There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death.”

“When we are young we believe to be adults; when we are adults we believe to be young.”

“There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.”

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

“Here dead we lie because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose;
But young men think it is, and we were young.”

“I can't say or explain anything. Pictures don’t come from your head but from life... I am always looking for life. All that escapes thought or will-power.”

“If the Lord sends us war, we have got to face it like men, but God forbid we should manufacture war, and use it as an escape from our domestic difficulties. You can't expect a blessing on that.”