Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

My fiftieth year had come and gone,I sat, a solitary man,In a crowded London shop,And open book and empty cupOn the marble table-top.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress

It is a hard thing to be married to a man of learning that must always be having arguments.