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

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

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.

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