One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.