The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. – Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. – James Russell Lowell, "Cambridge Thirty Years Ago," Literary Essays
Chum was a British boys weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children. – A. E. van Vogt
