Hester Thrale Quote

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

Letter to Fanny Burney, November 12, 1781; Charlotte Barrett (ed.) Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay (1854) vol. 2, p. 82.

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

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

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

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