How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

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.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

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.

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.