if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

Men can bear all things but good days.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.