You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length.

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

The measure of a man’s life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

The great matter is not how long you pray, but how earnestly you pray. Consider the life of the prayer rather than the length of the prayer. If your prayer reaches to heaven it is long enough.

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it’s blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

Life’s too short to take yourself seriously – but it’s just the right length to order dessert.

You can’t control the length of your life. You can control the depth.