How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.