Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.