"If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death." ― Samuel Butler Topic(s): Strength More From Samuel Butler "The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion." "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." "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." More In Strength "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."― Og Mandino "Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength."― George Henry Lewes "I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on."― Robert Browning