An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

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

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

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.