The spirit of delight comes in small ways.
It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring
There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.