Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.