Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

Lets put this to bed, ... It's dead.

Everything is dead while it lives.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

For the works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.