Life isn’t all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
Don’t be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do some honest work in his own corner.
Author refers to, “short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.
He never wants anything but what’s right and fair; only when you come to settle what’s right and fair, it’s everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that’s his idea of a compromise.
I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.
He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.
At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.
Remember there’s always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere if you’ll only listen for it.
Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.
From behind the shadow of the still small voice – more awful than tempest or earthquake – more sure and persistent than day and night – is always sounding full of hope and strength to the weariest of us all, Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.
Christ’s whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness – the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God – one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.
Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
Life isn’t all beer and skittles.
You are no longer a boy, and one of the first duties which a man owes to his friends and to society is to live within his income.
But I have forgotten to tell you how I came into the world, and am telling you my father’s story instead of my own. You seem to like hearing about it though, and you can’t understand one without the other.
Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.
However, you’ll all find, if you haven’t found it out already, that a time comes in every human friendship when you must go down into the depths of yourself, and lay bare what is there to your friend, and wait in fear for his answer.