This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
The living need charity more than the dead.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
A rose to the living is more
Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.
One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it's gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief — that's more terrible than dying — more terrible than dying young.
The dead are way more organized than the living.
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn’t live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
The predictions of physical theories for the most part concern situations where initial conditions can be precisely specified. If such initial conditions are not found in nature, they can be arranged. Such arrangements are considerably easier to realize with inanimate than with animate matter, because the properties of animate matter are much more sensitive to being tampered with than inanimate matter. In particular, living tissue in vitro may behave quite differently than in situ. Controlled biological experiments are, of course, possible, but they are more difficult and their scope is more limited than that of physical experiments. For this reason, biology has had to depend to a greater extent than physics on theories of larger speculative scope, in which reasoning by imaginative analogy plays a more important role.