(Death is) A leap into the dark.

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).