Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.