1.   I was enjoying the luxuries of a rustic nineteenth-century boyhood, but for the women Morrisonville life had few rewards.

2.   Life has a funny way of sorting itself out.

3.   Life has a habit of springing surprises.

4.   Life has a nasty habit of repeating itself.

5.   Life has a way of changing the best of plans.

6.   Life has a way of giving a comic a funny face which ultimately starts to pay for itself.

7.   Life has to pinch your cheeks hard to make you happy.

8.   Life often has that familiar look in its eyes.

9.   Never in all my life have I felt so humiliated.

10.   One of the basic truths about human beings is that we want our lives to have meaning.