Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.