“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

“All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.”

“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.”

“I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.”

“Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles”

“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”