To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.