Every good thing has been rejected and jumped on by the glibsome party with overweening faith in his own omniscience. Success is a matter of outliving your sins. The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is the process of elimination. A man with all the time there is to do a task is like a cigarette smoker who can quit anytime. Troubles are not really troubles unless you quit work and incubate them - otherwise they are only incidental diversions.
Hypocrites sometimes tell the truth -after all, accidents do happen.
Choose ye this day whom ye will serve - the house or the bunch. If a man write a better book or preach a better sermon than his neighbors, the world will bring rat-traps to his door, tho he live in a forest. Difficulties afford heroism its opportunity. Everything is waiting and watching you to see what signal you hoist from within - you attract that which you desire to attract. There is a difference between joyous work and joyless toil - it is love that lightens labor.