Dean Swift satirized the vulgar exclusiveness of those who desired the infinite meadows of Heaven only to be frequented by the religious sect they adorned on earth: “We are God’s chosen few! All others will be damned! There is no place in Heaven for you, We can’t have Heaven crammed!” * * * * * Lord Dalling (Sir Henry Bulwer) codified his life in axioms and phrases. His intimate friend, Sir Drummond Wolff, says so. (By the way, Wolff’s father was a marvellous Bible scholar. I heard him preach the sermon of my life: it was extempore, on “The Resurrection.” A great friend of his told me that Wolff did really know the Bible by heart.) These are Lord Dalling’s sayings; he quotes Talleyrand for one of his rules of life: “Acknowledge the receipt of a book from the author at once: this relieves you of the necessity of saying whether you have read it.” Again this is excellent: “You cannot do anyone more good than by trying unsuccessfully to do him an injury.” (Mr. Labouchere gave me the same reason for attacking me in his paper _Truth_.) “Nothing is so foolish as to be wise out of season.” “The best trait in a man’s character is an anxiety to serve those who have obliged him once and can do so no more.” * * * * * Nelson’s Ipsissima Verba. “Do not imagine I am one of those hot-brained people who fight at an immense disadvantage without an adequate object ... in a week’s time I shall get reinforcements and the enemy will get none, and then I must annihilate him.” It was not “Victory” that Nelson ever desired. It was “Annihilation!” * * * * * Moses, Gideon and Cromwell. Moses and Gideon were each of them summoned straight from their simple daily task to go and help their fellow countrymen, and both were able to perform the task allotted to them in spite of their first great doubts of their fitness for the work. The figure of Moses looms through the Ages as gigantic as the Pyramids, and nearer home and in a lesser sphere stands our English Cromwell, the Great Protector! “I would have been glad,” said Cromwell, “to have lived on my woodside or kept a flock of sheep rather than have undertaken a government like this.” And yet in the end he had undertaken it because he said he “had hoped he might prevent some imminent evil.” * * * * * Suffragettes. The nine Muses were all women. The three Graces were all women. * * * * * A great philosopher has stated that a woman can be classed under two categories: 1. A mother, a mistress and a friend; or, 2. A comrade and queen and child. A woman is really rooted in physical reality, and all the above six attributes of the philosopher always live in her.