'Tis worth a thousand years of strife,<br>'Tis worth a wise man's best of life,<br>To lessen, be it but by one,<br>The countless ills beneath the sun. - Anonymous<br><br>The dreariest spot in all the land<br>To death they set apart;<br>With scanty grace from Nature's hand,<br>And none from that of art.<br><br>For thus our fathers testified<br>That he might read who ran,<br>The emptiness of human pride,<br>The nothingness of man. - Whittier<br><br>To preserve the living and make the dead to live, to keep men out of their Urnes, and discourse of humane fragments in them, is not impertinent unto our profession: whose study is life and death, who daily behold examples of mortality, and of all men least need artificial mementos, or coffins by our bedside, to minde us of our graves. - Sir Thomas Browne, M.D.(1605-82), in the epistle dedicatory to Hydriolaphia, Urne-Buriall.