Consequences are unpitying.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.