A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.

Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?