It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

Tea should be taken in solitude.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers.