For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men. - Herman Melville

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing..

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused. The privilege, inborn and inalienable, that every man has of dying himself, and inflicting death upon another, was not given to us without a purpose. These are the last resources of an insulted and unendurable existence.