Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.