Faith

"What left-wing thinking: in a funeral oration, to make an effort to heap praise on the dead. I have never read a funeral oration that is in its entirety a farewell. What a soaring of thoughts is occasioned when prisoners bid farewell to those who are going to freedom! When those who remain in darkness bid farewell to those who go to God! How one can connect the ideas radiating into infinity with the pettiness of this earthly life. Such talk is both comforting and true."