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• O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me
  of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse....
• So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
  -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) -- Frag. 135 (trans. by Plumptre)...
• T is not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
  -- James Montgomery (1771-1854) -- The Issues of Life and Death...
• All is concentr'd in a life intense, Where not a beam, nor air, nor leaf is lost, But hath a part of being.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, Stanza 89...
• It is the elected official's duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfaction to theirs -- and above all, ever and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.
  But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgement, his enlightened conscience, he ought not sacrifice to you, to any man, or any set of men living....
• Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?
  Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh....
• One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his fav'rite tree
  Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he....
• With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons, and their change,--all please alike.
  Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest bird...
• Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826, p. 146...