Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine

Even the fact that doctors themselves die of the very diseases they profess to cure passes unnoticed. We do not shoot out our lips and shake our heads, saying, 'They save others: themselves they cannot save':

A life without cause is a life without effect.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -George Bernard Shaw.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.