Life and Existence

All human things are subject to decay,

All human things are subject to decay,

‘That was the curious incident,’ remarked Sherlock Holmes.

You see, but you do not observe.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

Every tone [of the songs of the slaves] was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

I throw myself down in my Chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

I throw myself down in my Chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

No man is an Island, entire of it self.

Busy old fool, unruly sun,

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,

I long to talk with some old lover’s ghost,

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I

All other things, to their destruction draw,

Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you

One short sleep past, we wake eternally,

One short sleep past, we wake eternally,

Death be not proud, though some have called thee

License my roving hands, and let them go,

I never deny; I never contradict; I sometimes forget.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.