I be dog if hit don't look like sometimes that when a fellow sets out to play a joke, hit ain't another fellow he's playing that joke on; hit's a kind of big power laying still somewhere in the dark that he sets out to prank with without knowing hit, and hit all depends on whether that ere power is in the notion to take a joke or not.

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there's always somebody handy afterward to prove their foresight by your hindsight.

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.

That was the voice of one who knew his own mind.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

The means have murdered the end.

No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference… between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.

Resign your destiny to higher powers.

I will assume for the present---until next year---that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

It seems to me there are times when you have to act and times when you have to wait, but the hardest times are those when you want to do one but you have to do the other and you're not sure which is the best.

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.