"Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!"

"If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death"

"My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me"

"Immortality - a fate worse than death"

"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit"

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity"

"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time"

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily"

"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying"

"Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death"

"In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation"