Those folks we've been to see have had their good times like the rest of us, only we saw 'em just now when they were in the midst of a bad time.

Life ain't confined to a ditch any more than it is to what Gideon calls a lily-pond.

Keep your balance, that's the main thing.

Whatever else you lose, you must be sure to keep your balance, or you'll be in danger of going overboard." "Do you mean that there is no remedy for conditions like this ?" The old man pondered his answer so long that Stephen thought he had either given up or forgotten the question.
"The only remedy I have ever been able to see is to work not on conditions, but on human nature," he replied.

"Improve human nature, and then you will improve the conditions in which it lives.