A good character is the best tombstone.
Interpretation
A person's character defines their legacy more than any physical marker after death.
This quote emphasizes that the true measure of a person's life is their character and the positive impact they leave on others. Rather than focusing on material achievements or how they are remembered in death, it suggests that the goodness of one's character is what truly endures and commemorates a life well-lived.
In practice
A speaker at a memorial service could use this quote to highlight the positive attributes of the deceased.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?
What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.
You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.
Freedom for supporters of the government only, for members of one party only no matter how big its membership may be is no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently.
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