I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

Money was their God; work their religion.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.