One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.
Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.
Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.
You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.
Love has no place in a lawyer's office.
Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.