of eternity.--_Milton._

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those
whom we have loved.--_Madame Necker._

Man makes a death which nature never made.--_Young._

The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred
in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our
first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its
course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old
fashion--Death! Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion
yet--of Immortality!--_Dickens._

God's finger touched him, and he slept.--_Tennyson._

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall
return unto God who gave it.--_Bible._

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by
the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die
as usual.--_Fontenelle._

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.--_Shakespeare._

Flesh is but the glass which holds the dust that measures all our time,
which also shall be crumbled into dust.--_George Herbert._

Death expecteth thee everywhere; be wise, therefore, and expect death
everywhere.--_Quarles._

The world. Oh, the world is so sweet to the dying!--_Schiller._

The world is full of resurrections. Every night that folds us up in
darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have
seen the first of the dawn, will know it,--the day rises out of the
night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into
life.--_George MacDonald._

The dissolution of forms is no loss in the mass of matter.--_Pliny._

Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death.--_Young._

~Debt.~--He that dies pays all debts.--_Shakespeare._

Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible; a man might as well have a smoky
house and a scolding wife, which are said to be the two worst evils of
our life.--_Spurgeon._

The first step in debt is like the first step in falsehood, almost
involving the necessity of proceeding in the same course, debt following
debt as lie follows lie. Haydon, the painter, dated his decline from the
day on which he first borrowed money.--_Samuel Smiles._

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you
will find it a calamity.--_Johnson._

That swamp [of debt] which tempts men towards it with such a pretty
covering of flowers and verdure. It is wonderful how soon a man gets up
to his ch