How
gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be
earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in
my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep
secure.
-- John Milton
1608-1674, British
Poet
Death
is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
-- John Milton
1608-1674, British
Poet
Men
fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil,
and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest
good.
-- William Mitford
1744-1827, British
Historian, Writer
Death,
they say, acquits us of all obligations.
-- Michel Eyquem De
Montaigne
1533-1592, French
Philosopher, Essayist
