They will have a large part in the future of the world to heighten and brighten life and justify the ways of God to men.
These and such as these are our consolation in life's thorny pathway.

They keep alive in us the memory of our youth and many a jaded traveller as he listens to their music, sees again the apple blossoms falling around him in the twilight of some unforgotten spring.
PETER MacQUEEN.
Peter MacQueen was brought to my house years ago by a friend when he happened to be stationary for an hour, and he is certainly a unique and interesting character, a marvellous talker, reciter of Scotch ballads, a maker of epigrams, and a most unpractical, now-you-see-him and now-he's-a-far-away-fellow.

I remember his remark, "Breakfast is a fatal habit." It was not the breakfast to which he referred but to the gathering round a table at a stated hour, far too early, when not in a mood for society or for conversation.

And again: "I have decided never to marry.

A poor girl is a burden; a rich girl a boss." But you never can tell.