We meet people every day whose bodies are evidently those of men and women long alive - Samuel Butler

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

My notes always grow longer if I shorten them. I mean the process of compression makes them more pregnant and they breed new notes.

Life is the gathering of waves to a head, at death they break into a million fragments each one of which, however, is absorbed at once into the sea of life and helps to form a later generation which comes rolling on till it too breaks.