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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.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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.
To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.