Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.