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

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds