"Last scene of all that ends this..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Swift as shadow, short as any dream”

“. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.”

“Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.”

“That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.”

“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”

“Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.”

“Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.”

“Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?”

“Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.”