It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Ah,' thought the king sadly, shrugging his shoulders, "I see clearly that if one has a crazy wife, one cannot avoid being a fool.'

("Queen Fantasque")

Alas, it is when one is beginning to leave behind one's mortal body that one is the most hindered by it!

There is, I feel, an age at which the individual man would want to stop: you will seek the age at which you would desire your Species had stopped. Discontented with your present state for reasons that foretell even greater discontents for your unhappy Posterity, perhaps you would want to be able to go backward in time. This sentiment must be the Eulogy of your first ancestors, the criticism of your contemporaries, and the dread of those who will have the unhappiness to live after you.