The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

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

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.