“Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.”

“The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.”

“Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be;
Yet oh, how dear it is to us, this life we live and see!”

“Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.”

“Time, life and death are mysterious, and they will remain to be so until the day we will come to possess the key of all illusions.”

“Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.”

“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”

“Ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death.”

“We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.”

“After death the sensation is either pleasant or there is none at all. But this should be thought on from our youth up, so that we may be indifferent to death, and without this thought no one can be in a tranquil state of mind. For it is certain that we must die, and, for aught we know, this very day. Therefore, since death threatens every hour, how can he who fears it have any steadfastness of soul?”
Post mortem quidem sensus aut optandus aut nullus est. Sed hoc meditatum ab adulescentia debet esse mortem ut neglegamus, sine qua meditatione tranquillo animo esse nemo potest. Moriendum enim certe est, et incertum an hoc ipso die. Mortem igitur omnibus horis impendentem timens qui poterit animo consistere?