list idea from sugarplum

• 'See in what peace a Christian can die.' --Joseph Addison
• 'Beautiful.' --Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • In reply to her husband who had asked how she felt.
• 'I don't know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' --Isaac Newton
• 'I am about to, or I am going to, die; either expression is used.' --Dominique Bouhours