““I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”
““I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”
“As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid”
“The man who dies rich dies disgraced”
“We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death”
“Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death”
“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction”
“Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it”