36 Quotes by William McFee

People don't seem to realize that doing what's right's no guarantee against misfortune.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting on.

A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.

The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.

Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?

The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.