People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.
he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
Rome is an astonishment!
It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.
The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.