"I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death"

"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 no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see"

"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"

"Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist"

"If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved"