Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.