“You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
