There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.
The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.
Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.
If you learn from a loss you have not lost.