When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.