Adam Lindsay Gordon

Adam Lindsay Gordon (October 19, 1833 – 24 June 1870) was an Australian poet, jockey and politician.

Quotes
Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.
 * Life is mostly froth and bubble;
 * "Finis Exoptatus (A metaphysical Song)" (24 November 1866), Fytte 8 of Ye Wearie Wayfarer: Hys Ballad in Eight Fyttes, as published in Sea Spray and Smoke Drift (1867).
 * Variant: Many quoters, including Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919), have "in our own" instead of "in your own".