Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

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