Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling. – George Gordon, Lord Byron

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. – George Santayana, "War Shrines," Soliloquies in England and Later Solilo