The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality

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

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality

'Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.