Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
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