To himself every one is an immortal: he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. - Samuel Butler

There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through.

Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain. Thus, it is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first, and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.

The Will-be and the Has-been touch us more nearly than the Is. So we are more tender towards children and old people than to those who are in the prime of life.