My Small Boat

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And [...]

Thank heavens that the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.

Half the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.