I Never Could Be Good When I

Our Sons Shall Not Be Taken From Us To Unlearn
 All That We Have Been Able To Teach Them Of Charity, Mercy And Patience.

It Has Been Strange To Me To Return To Life And To Feel That I Have Any Sympathy With Human Beings, After The Long Interval Of Quiet And Indifference Which Succeeded My Marriage.

Every Life Has Its Actual Blanks, Which The Ideal Must Fill Up, Or Which Else Remain Bare & Profitless Forever.

It Is Always Legitimate To Wish To Rise Above One's Self, Never Above Others.

The Broken Eggshell Of A Civilization Which Time Has Hatched And Devoured.