The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
Man cannot choose his duties.
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.