We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.