There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

Life is as inexorable as the sea.

The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.