H. Ward Beecher says of those men who have no care or thought of others, but are content with looking after their own ease and enjoyment, that they ought to be put into a coffin, for their life's work is ended. When God wanted sponges and oysters, he made them, and put one on the rock, the other in the mud. When he made man, he did not make him to be a sponge or an oyster; he made him with feet and hands, and head and heart, and vital blood and a place to use them, and said “Go to work!” But I tell you, if a man has come to that point where he is content, he ought to be put into his coffin, for a contented live man is a shame. If a man has come to that state in which he says, “I do not want to know any more, or be any more,” he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy. Of all hideous things, mummies are the most hideous; and of mummies, those are the most hideous that are running about the streets and talking.