"Death, that hath suck'd the honey of..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.”

“Men have marble, women waxen, minds.”

“I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.”

“So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.”

“What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.”

“What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?”

“There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.”

“Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.”

“Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.”