Discipline must be maintained.

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!