Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.
Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.
It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.
Affection exaggerates its own offenses.