There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.