This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

Always wanting another man than your own.

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.