While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.