Nine
Anything would be a success in London on Sunday night. People are so grateful.
Ten
The one cheerful item in a universe of stony facts is that no one can harm anybody except himself.
Eleven
The eye that has learned to look life full in the face without a quiver of the lid should find nothing repulsive. Everything that is, is the ordered and calculable result of environment. Nothing can be abhorrent, nothing blameworthy, nothing contrary to nature. Can we exceed nature? In the presence of the primeval and ever-continuing forces of nature, can we maintain our fantastic conceptions of sin and of justice? We are, and that is all we should dare to say.
Twelve
The art of life, the art of extracting all its power from the human machine, does not lie chiefly in processes of bookish-culture, nor in contemplations of the beauty and majesty of existence. It lies chiefly in keeping the peace, the whole peace, and nothing but the peace, with those with whom one is “thrown.”
Thirteen
We have our ideals now, but when they are mentioned we feel self-conscious and uncomfortable, like a school-boy caught praying.