“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.
“Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
“Good-night! Good-night! as we so oft have said beneath this roof at midnight, in the days that are no more, and shall no more return. Thou has but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays to cover up the embers that still burn.
“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live
“As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die
“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances
“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic, if it is pulled out I shall die
“I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state
“Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overhead
“You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day
“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys
“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.