It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death

If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.

Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round.