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

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

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.

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.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.