There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. - Samuel Butler

The limits of the body seem well defined enough as definitions go, but definitions seldom go far.

Their view evidently was that genius was like offences--needs must that it come, but woe unto that man through whom it comes. A man’s business, they hold, is to think as his neighbours do, for Heaven help him if he thinks good what they count bad. And really it is hard to see how the Erewhonian theory differs from our own, for the word “idiot” only means a person who forms his opinions for himself.

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