On Indian Independence Day Celebrations http://www.ilovekolkata.in/index.php/My-City/Independence-means.html (2010)
“The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.”
Statement just before becoming the longest lived U.S. President as quoted in "Ford eclipses Reagan as oldest ex-president" in USA Today (10 November 2006) http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-10-ford_x.htm
2000s
"The Gods" (1876) as published in The Gods and Other Lectures (1879).
Context: Day by day, religious conceptions grow less and less intense. Day by day, the old spirit dies out of book and creed. The burning enthusiasm, the quenchless zeal of the early church have gone, never, never to return. The ceremonies remain, but the ancient faith is fading out of the human heart. The worn-out arguments fail to convince, and denunciations that once blanched the faces of a race, excite in us only derision and disgust. As time rolls on, the miracles grow mean and small, and the evidences our fathers thought conclusive utterly fail to satisfy us.
Eine der wichtigsten Tugenden im gesellschaftlichen Leben, die täglich seltener wird, ist die Verschwiegenheit.
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)
“Less, less of self each day,
And more, my God, of Thee!”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 538.
Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
“Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.”
The Last Lecture (2008)
