all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?
cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!
I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.
Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.