Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

We all labor against our own cure for death is the cure of all diseases.

A diamond which is the hardest of stones not yielding unto steel emery or any other thing is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.

Let age not envy draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuffbox, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

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.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.