You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.