When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.
In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!
There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.