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

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

Surely the glory of finally getting rid of and burying a long and troublesome matter should be as great as that of making an important discovery. The trouble is that the coverer is like Samson who perished in the wreck of what he had destroyed; if he gets rid of a thing effectually he gets rid of himself too.

It is said of money that it is more easily made than kept and this is true of many things, such as friendship; and even life itself is more easily got than kept.