“We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death”

“To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life”

“I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the supreme being”

“God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages”

“The man who dies rich dies disgraced”

“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction”