Though in prison, Geoffry Hudson, the dwarf, died more bravely than Goliah, the giant; and the last end of a butterfly shames us all.

Some women have lived nobler lives, and died nobler deaths, than men.

Threatened with the stake, mitred Cranmer recanted; but through her fortitude, the lorn widow of Edessa stayed the tide of Valens' persecutions.
'Tis no great valor to perish sword in hand, and bravado on lip; cased all in panoply complete.

For even the alligator dies in his mail, and the swordfish never surrenders.

To expire, mild-eyed, in one's bed, transcends the death of Epaminondas..