Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.
Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.
Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.