Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

All beginnings are very troublesome things.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

Farewell's a bitter word to say.