“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live”

“He lives most life whoever breathes most air”

“The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day”

“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation”

“We mortals cross the ocean of this world each in his average cabin of a life”

“We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death”