My friendships, they are a very strong part of my life, they are as light as gossamer but also they are as strong as steel. And I cannot throw them off, nor altogether do with them or without them. And I love them at the point where they say: It is nice to see you again. And I love them too at the point when they say: Good-bye, come again soon. The rhythm of friendship is a very good rhythm.

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night above As I fear the friends below.

Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.