The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.

Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American writer, businessman, philosopher

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard [ed. E. Hubbard II] (1927)