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

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.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.