Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself.

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.