I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, /you might as well take the book along with them; /one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; /he steps forth like a bridegroom, /bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?