There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.