"Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and the rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself:…"

"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in that it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall."

"Thou wilt cease to live, not with a worse life, but with a life that is no life."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."