… all experience tended to show that a man must die; and whether he died of a miserable old age in his own country, or prematurely of damp in the bottom of a foreign mine, was surely of little consequence, provided that by a change in his mode of life he benefited the British Empire.
To some people this was an extreme concept of duty and patriotism of the British in their day of empire.
Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!
It was my greatest mistake. I will wear it as an albatross around my neck. In my obituary it will always be mentioned that I was a member of the KKK.
The governor's not allowed to drive. That's part of the life you accept.
Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.
If you don't want to play and get concussed, then don't play. It's your career, it's your life. You have to make that decision on your own.
Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.