Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.