We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to cons….

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and inco….

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm..

There is but one art, to omit..

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths..

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive..

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself..

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise..

Don't ever confuse motion with progress..

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys..

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. .….

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts..

I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed ….

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people..

Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in t….

The world has no room for cowards..

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion..

Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes.

Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips..

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality..

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life..