... it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.

A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.

Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!

(Death is) A leap into the dark.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

The grand Perhaps!

... the kind earth waited without haste until he came to it.