To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.
Washington IrvingThere is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living.
Washington IrvingThe Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.
Washington Irving