For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

As man is now constituted, to be brief is almost a condition of being inspired

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool