When we are dead Rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.

A creditor is worse than a master; for a master owns only your person, a creditor owns your dignity and can belabour that.

If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.

A small loan makes a debtor; a great one, an enemy.

Words pay no debts.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Death is nothing to us, for when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Neither death nor the sun can be looked at full in the face.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

If some died and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.