There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams... He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.

‎"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.