There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?

They live ill who expect to live always.

Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Life protracted is protracted woe.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

Often a man who is very old in years has nothing beyond his age by which he can prove that he has lived a long time.