Begin to work and you'll be borne up on all hands: No one sinks to the dregs but by his own weight.

If you don't bear fruit why should men care for you ?" He shrugged his shoulders and turned from me with disdainful indifference.
"I've done enough for their respect, Frank, and received nothing but hatred.

Every man must dree his own weird.

Thank Heaven, life's not without compensations.

I'm sorry I cannot please you," and he added carelessly, "M----has asked me to go and spend the summer with him at Gland in Switzerland.