To Everything There Is An End -

Truth, Though It Has Many Disadvantages, Is At Least Changeless. You Can Always Find It Where You Left It.

Death ... Is Not A Great Affair! Think - It Happens Once Only - To Each Of Us - As Birth Does. What Do You Know About Being Born? That - And No More - Will You Know About The Act Of Death.

Luck Enters Into Every Contingency. You Are A Fool If You Forget It -- And A Greater Fool If You Count Upon It.

... Most People Are Dead, And None Of Them Seem To Mind It. One Hears A Great Many Complaints About Life, Doesn't One? And There Are People I Know Who Would Certainly Grumble -- However Dead They Were -- If There Were Anything To Grumble At.

She Believed In Letting Children Have A Certain Amount Of Rope, And Only Intervened At The Last Moment, In Order To Prevent Their Hanging Themselves By It.