Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. - Samuel Butler

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

People say that there are neither dragons to be killed nor distressed maidens to be rescued nowadays. I do not know, but I think I have dropped across one or two, nor do I feel sure whether the most mortal wounds have been inflicted by the dragons or by myself.