“Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.”
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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
