William McFee
William McFee
William McFeewas an English writer of sea stories. His parentage was Canadian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 June 1881
CountryUnited States of America
obscurity reputation fame
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.
against guarantee people realize seem
People don't seem to realize that doing what's right's no guarantee against misfortune.
man
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
guarantee people
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
against guarantee
Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
failure writing people
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
men ideas incubation
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting on.
country blow hands
A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.
memories odor good-memories
There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
artist teens bursting
The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.
responsibility anxiety darkness
Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.
years may pessimistic
There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.
writing soul shows
An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?
men warning sides
The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.