"Both marriage and death ought to be..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Ah, if he could only die temporarily!”

“...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.”

“When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.”

“The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.”

“Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.”

“No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.”

“There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.”

“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”

“To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.”