Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?