“The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.”

“Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy”

“Life is a dream walking, death is a going home”

“Life is like the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority”

“A birthday: and now a day that rose with much of hope, with meaning rife. A thoughtful day from dawn to close: the middle day of human life”

“All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.”