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- 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
- Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. — Gilbert Parker
- It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur. — Gilbert Parker
- Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose. — Gilbert Parker