a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
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.