A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
There is a transcendent power in example.
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.
Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
I cheated at school. I remember on one occasion I wrote some history dates in pen on my leg. So when there was a question like 'What year did that happen?', I'd lift my skirt up and have a look.
But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go--so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they enjoy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.