Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.

To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day.

Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

How very hard it is to be a Christian!