Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes gui… - Samuel Butler

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

A credulous mind . . . finds most delight in believing
strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass
with him; but never regards those that are plain and
feasible, for every man can believe such.

"There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents — oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of refuge for grown men who have not yet lost them?"

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead.