A mate should keep himself to himself. The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. You can kill the body but not the spirit. You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. | 
