Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

He who faces no calamity gains no courage.