Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.