against them. I mean, don’t feel convinced, every journey that you set out upon, that peril lurks in ambush in your path. Don’t see collision in every jolt of the train, and scent shipwreck in each lurch of the steamer. Travelling under such circumstances will become neither an enjoyment nor a benefit, and you had better remain at home all your days with a fire-escape tied to your window and a burglar-alarm ready to your hand.
articles of luggage from the nets in the carriages, which, by the way, as is expressly stated in most trains, are meant only to contain the lighter articles of passengers’ belongings. I know a lady who narrowly escaped a broken neck by her husband’s portmanteau falling upon her head from the luggage-rack above, and I should advise all my lady readers to put their own weighty encumbrances under the seat, and to make sure that they are not seated beneath anyone else’s ponderous possessions.
Banish all sense of danger and all anticipation of accidents, if you want really to derive joy and advantage from your travels.
A single word in conclusion: Never anticipate accidents, though you prepare
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