Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.