Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.