It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.
What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.
There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
We are always children to our mothers.