There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 8:8.

   It iswonderful, when a calculation ismade, how littlethe mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, 6  Apr. Collected in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.