“A brief life burns brightly.”
“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
“The candle of his life burned out too soon, but it burned so brightly!”
“Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked. "No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.”
“He liked having the boy there beside him. Like some bright flame of life still burning bright beside the spent lamp of his own spirit.”
“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”