“There must be second fiddles in an orchestra, and it’s fortunate that I have precisely the talent for playing one, and my doctrine is that the second fiddle well played is quite as good as the first. What would the first be without it?”


Courage.

“Well, there’s no way to get through the world but to keep doing, and to attack every emergency with courage.”


Value of truth.

“We’ve got to get truth as we can in this world, just as miners dig gold out of the mines, with all the quartz, and dirt, and dross; but it pays.”

CHAPTER VI.
NATURE.

THE MINISTER’S WOOING.

Want of sympathy in nature.