"Pleasures are transitory, but honor is immortal."

"Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of."

"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."

"The foot in the grave."

"Burial site of General Winfield Scott at Find A Grave"

"Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch."

"That a human being had died did not distress her. Had it been somebody she knew it would have upset her; sh…"