Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Call for the grandest of all human sentiments, what i… - Thomas De Quincey

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

Kant ate but once a day, and drank no beer. Of this liquor, (I mean the strong black beer,) he was, indeed, the most determined enemy. If ever a man died prematurely, Kant would say — ’He has been drinking beer, I presume.

Death we can face: but knowing, as some of us do, what is human life, which of us is it that without shuddering could (if consciously we were summoned) face the hour of birth?