Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

To forget oneself is to be happy.