If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself which shall exist apart from matter; you must have both or neither. You can have matter moving much, or little, and in all conceivable ways; but you cannot have matter without any motion more than you can have motion without any matter that is moving.

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.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

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.