Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
All beginnings are very troublesome things.
Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.
The past is perpetual youth to the heart.
Childhood, whose very happiness is love.
charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.