Beauty is a perilous gift.
You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.
Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.