To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.
Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.
You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.