Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.