Chesterfield, Lord (1694-1773), English courtier: "Give the doctor a chair."
Columbus, Christopher (1440-1506), Italian navigator: "Lord, into Thy hands I commit my spirit."
Cowper, William (1731-1800), English poet: "Feel? I feel unutterable, unutterable despair. What does it signify?"
Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658), English statesman: "My desire is to make what haste I may to be gone."
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790), American philosopher: "A dying man can do nothing easy."
Frederick the Great of Prussia (1712-1786): "We are over the hill. We shall go better now."
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (1539-1583), English navigator: "We are as near heaven by sea as by land."
Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898), British statesman: "Amen."
Goethe (1749-1832), German poet: "Open the shutters and let in more light."
Greeley, Horace (1811-1872), American journalist: "It is done."