Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

Love is the only gold.

You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May.

I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?