Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.