“There is no light at the end of the tunnel, only a pack of matches handed down from one generation to the next. Humanity does not have a long fuse and this generation holds the last match.”

“Are you worried you're notlike everyone else?Your worries will only worsenwhen you findthat the path to conformityis different for each person.”

“She came around the corner andall of a suddenI understood it:all love is sudden.”

“I'm going to do something bigger and better,bigger and betterand bolder, but first,I'm going to do somethingsmaller and worse.”

“But wisdom is not got through shouting-matches within one generation.”

“But war has a long fuse, and a slow match.”

“Ah! The world is a new and a wide one to you, But the world to your sweetheart is shut, For a change never comes to the lonely Bush girl From the stockyard, the bush, and the hut; And the only relief from the dullness she feels Is when ridges grow softened and dim, And away in the dusk to the sliprails she steals To dream of past meetings with him.”