When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

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

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.