The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.