I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.
The best style is the style you don't notice.
Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.