Accident

"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."

"Life and death are too resolute, too implacable to be accidental."

"Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident."

"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."

"I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street."

"Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human."

"We do not suffer by accident."

"There are the people who really, really enjoy being celebrities, and then there are the people who came by it maybe by accident."

"I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth."