What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
An annuity is a very serious business.
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.