There Is No More Sombre Enemy Of

Except For Poverty, Incompatibility, Opposition Of Parents, Absence Of Love On One Side And Of Desire To Marry On Both, Nothing Stands In The Way Of Our Happy Union.

The Headmistress Was An Able Instructress In French And History And We Learned With Her As Fast As Fear Could Teach Us.

While Thoughts Exist, Words Are Alive And Literature Becomes An Escape, Not From, But Into Living.

Optimism And Self-pity Are The Positive And Negative Poles Of Modern Cowardice.

No One Over Thirty-five Is Worth Meeting Who Has Not Something To Teach Us, Something More Than We Could Learn For Ourselves, From A Book.