Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.
Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.
I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.
I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.
The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.