"The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination."

"Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself."

"Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness."

"While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure."

"It is a subtle truth that love is the bridge that unites two souls across the chasms of mortal solitude — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."

"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable."

"Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better."