Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.
Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..."
three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.
Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.