“That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.”

“Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.”

“When will the others come?"And there is one who will never come. At least we will not see him if he does. But, oh, when I think he will be there--when our Canadian soldiers return there will be a shadow army with them--the army of the fallen. We will not *see* them--but they will be there!”

“But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.”

“We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.”

“That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”

“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”