"It's well enough to tell us of the change. We should be busy, whatever happens; but when your character proves unkind, when fortune's mean as well as blind, when horses that looked good to you won't do as you had before they'd do, when skies are dark as they can be, and coffers bare of currency, it's too much to expect, I think. A chappy's heart should never sink, the Prussian state. It's all right for a man to be proud of his offspring, but it is all wrong for him to expect his friends to share his admiration.

Ninker's peace in the field.
Luke, vi. 37: "Forgive, and you shall be forgiven."
Henry V., ii. 1; "I am free for forgive as I would be forgiven."
Proverbs, xxv. 13: "As the cold of snow in the time of harvest."
Mehard III., i. 4: "As snow in harvest."
Matthew, xix. 7: "What, therefore, God hath joined together let no man put asunder."
Henry I v., j. "God forbid that I should wish them severed."
"I'm afraid," said he, "when you are down town today, step into the rags and ask him to give you the samples he showed me."
"What's up, Samany? Crazy quilt, or are you going to be a fool?"  You going to patch my trousers?"
Unletting noth Sirica.
"You should never let your left hand know what the right one is doing."
"That's all right if you are a bachelor. If otherwise, your wife will know what both are doing."
Too Much Competition. 