"If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death." ― Samuel Butler Topic(s): Strength More From Samuel Butler "Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God." "All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others." "Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness." More In Strength "The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset."― Liberty Hyde Bailey "And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me."― Alison Bechdel "There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."― Charles Dickens