Love, like destiny, loves surprises.
Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.