10 years ago in Quotes
It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
To live under constraint is a misfortune, but there is no constraint to live under constraint.