Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

What is the commonest, and yet the least remembered form of heroism? The heroism of an average mother. Ah! when I think of that broad fact I gather hope again for poor humanity, and this dark world looks bright, this diseased world looks wholesome to me once more, because, whatever else it is or is not full of, it is at least full of mothers.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.

Life is too short for mean anxieties.