Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.