Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.