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To the man who is penetrated with true principles, the shortest, the most common hint is a sufficient memorial to keep him free of sorrow and fear.

The present moment is the same for all men, and their loss, therefore, is equal, for it is clear that what they lose in death is but a fleeting instant of time.

Death, like birth, is a mystery of nature; the one a compounding of elements, the other a resolution into the same.

Tell over next all those you have known, one after the other: think how one buried his fellow, then lay dead himself, to be buried by a third.

For death also is one piece of the business of life, and, here as elsewhere, it is enough to do well what comes to our hand.