It is the firm duty of each of our free citizens and of every free citizen everywhere to place the cause of his country before the comfort, the convenience of himself.

Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.