William McFee

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

“Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.”

“One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.”

“It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.”

“There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.”

“If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.”

“That is my rule of life. If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. Do you remember Henley's magnificent lines? 'Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.' ? That is my gospel. What do you think of it?”

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

“Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!”

“Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.”