There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

When a person dies who does any one thing better than anyone else in the world, which so many others are trying to do well, it leaves a gap in society.

No young man believes he shall ever die

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is only to be as we were before we were born.

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short , but when we have had our fill of fruit, our swelter of heat, we said that we have had our day.

Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.