Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.
Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.