Quote#Hope
We cannot steer our drifting raft, nor stem the resistless current;…
Quote byFrederick York Powell · 1850–1904
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Quoted in The Pilgrims' Way: A Little Scrip of Good Counsel for Travellers by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1907), p. 174.
English (original)
We cannot steer our drifting raft, nor stem the resistless current; but we have it in our power to behave decently, to share the meagre stock of victuals fairly as long as they last, to take the good and evil as it comes, and even to hope, if we choose to do so, for a fair haven.
— Frederick York Powell
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