Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
'The Club of Queer Trades.'
OCTOBER 25th
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
'What's Wrong with the World.'
OCTOBER 26th
It is currently said that hope goes with youth and lends to youth its wings of a butterfly; but I fancy that hope is the last gift given to man, and the only gift not given to youth. Youth is pre-eminently the period in which a man can be lyric, fanatical, poetic; but youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. God has kept that good wine until now.
'Charles Dickens.'