Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Men will not always die quietly.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when…
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.

Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The luckiest men die worthwhile deaths

When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds ... Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?

Men often swear to kill themselves, and yet
Few of them, nowadays, make good their threat

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.