248 ONE THOUSAND FAMOUS THINGS
Let Him Not Be Forgotten
SUFFEB, no pomp at my funeral. Lay me quietly in the earth and
put a sundial over my grave, and let me be forgotten.
Last words of John Howard
Youth Above All
THERE is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for
everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals,
William Haditt
The Spark Divine
NOT hopeless, round this calm sepulchral spot,
A wreath presaging life we twine ;
If God is Love, what sleeps below was not
Without a spark divine.
Sir Francis Doyle on a favourite dog
The Laughing and the Weeping
WHEN a friend laughs it is for him to disclose the subject of his
joy ; when he weeps it is for me to discover the cause of his
sorrow. Joseph Francois Desmahis
The Death Roll of Ideas
THE number of the soldiers killed in the Great War is known. The
number of the ideas and beliefs destroyed by it remains still
unknown. Gustave Le Bon
All We Like Sheep
r^HOW me half a dozen people whom I can persuade that it is not the
O sun that gives light, and I should not despair of whole nations
holding the same opinions. Fontenelle
The Emperor Looks Back
WHAT an egregious fool must I have been to have squandered so
much blood and treasure in an absurd attempt to make men
think alike when I cannot even make a few watches keep time
together. The Emperor Charles the Fifth amusing
himself as a watchmaker after his abdication
So Many to So Few
^T^HB gratitude of every home, except in the abodes of the guilty,
JL goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied
by their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide
of world war by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the
field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill