There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
to everything there is an end - except fear.
... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.