| The proverb says, "Born lucky, always
lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously
lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned
in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned
condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat
in disguise. - Letter to Henry H. Rogers, 2 January 1895 It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so
undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. |
HARPER'S WEEKLY, March 18, 1905 |
They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him
with a kick, and I suppose it is so.
- Letter to San Francisco Alta California, printed
March 15, 1867
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and
-nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles
into your heart in the same way.
- "The Shrine of St. Wagner"
All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.
- Notebook, 1898
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before
the returns are all in.
- Letter to Samuel Moffett, 6 August 1904
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