as roads go, the road home is as good as any.
The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.