For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform.

From the lone shielding on the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas-- But still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides.

The greatest tragedy is when man gives up what he wants most for what he wants now!

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. .

They say be parted well and paid his score, And so, God be with him.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index of social position. . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

Not all the labor of the earth Is done by hardened hands.