The question of marriage or non-marriage is only the question of whether it is better to be spoiled one way or another. ii In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. iii Inoculation, or a hair of the dog that is going to bite you—this principle should be introduced in respect of marriage and speculation. Life and Love To live is like to love—all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. The Basis of Life We may say what we will, but Life is, _au fond_, sensual. Woman Suffrage I will vote for it when women have left off making a noise in the reading-room of the British Museum, when they leave off wearing high head-dresses in the pit of a theatre and when I have seen as many as twelve women in all catch hold of the strap or bar on getting into an omnibus. Manners Makyth Man Yes, but they make woman still more. Women and Religion It has been said that all sensible men are of the same religion and that no sensible man ever says what that religion is. So all sensible men are of the same opinion about women and no sensible man ever says what that opinion is. Happiness Behold and see if there be any happiness like unto the happiness of the devils when they found themselves cast out of Mary Magdalene. Sorrow within Sorrow He was in reality damned glad; he told people he was sorry he was not more sorry, and here began the first genuine sorrow, for he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry. Going Away I can generally bear the separation, but I don’t like the leave-taking. XV Titles and Subjects Titles A GOOD title should aim at making what follows as far as possible superfluous to those who know anything of the subject. “The Ancient Mariner” This poem would not have taken so well if it had been called “The Old Sailor,” so that Wardour Street has its uses. For Unwritten Articles, Essays, Stories The Art of Quarrelling. Christian Death-beds. The Book of Babes and Sucklings. Literary Struldbrugs. The Life of the World to Come. The Limits of Good Faith. Art, Money and Religion. The Third Class Excursion Train, or Steam-boat, as the Church of the Future. The Utter Speculation involved in much of the good advice that is commonly given—as never to sell a reversion, etc. Tracts for Children, warning them against the virtues of their elders. Making Ready for Death as a Means of Prolonging Life. An Essay concerning Human Misunderstanding. So McCulloch [a fellow art-student at Heatherley’s, a very fine draughtsman] used to say that he drew a great many lines and saved the best of them. Illusion, mistake, action taken in the dark—these are among the main sources of our progress. The Elements of Immorality for the Use of Earnest Schoolmasters. Family Prayers: A series of perfectly plain and sensible ones asking for what people really do want without any kind of humbug.