Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried.

To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.