It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
age is nothing but death that is conscious.
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.
Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.
The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.
Fancy tortures more people than does reality