To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

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 history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

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.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.