If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.
Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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.