History is written by the victors.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.