The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!

As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.