He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
Death pays all debts.
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.