The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.
In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.