The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depa… — John Morley

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. — David Herbert Lawrence
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way. — John Morley
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. — John Morley
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. — John Morley