Jeff Able

“so my husband is doing what a man, a samurai, must do. A samurai dies with dignity. For what is life to a samurai? Nothing at all. All life is suffering, neh? It is his right and duty to die with honor, before witnesses.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun, Part 1

“But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrows SEEM, and how small they ARE; how we think we shall die of grief, and how quickly we forget, I think we ought to be ashamed of ourselves and our fickle-heartedness.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

“Take a word of advice, even from three foot nothing. Try not to associate bodily defects with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield: Unabridged edition