Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!
Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.