Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

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.