A superior atmosphere exists, in which we all know each other; and there is a mysterious truth – deeper far than the material truth - to which we at … - Maurice Maeterlinck

one of the most strenuous centres of human industry and activity and the cradle of our great liberties. Such as it was yesterday — alas, that I cannot say, such as it is to-day! — this square, with the enormous but unspeakably harmonious mass of those market-buildings, at once powerful and graceful, wild, gloomy, proud, yet genial, was one of the most wonderful and perfect spectacles that could be seen in any town on this old earth of ours.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.