Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.

It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.

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