Who said “Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.”?

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

“For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.”

“'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.”

“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.”

“A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.”

“The man that makes a character, makes foes.”

“None think the great unhappy, but the great.”

“Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.”

“Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.”

“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”

“The purpose firm is equal to the deed.”