God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.