In any adversity gold can find friends.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
We generally get the evil we expect.
the matrimonial shoe pinches me.