Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.
The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
The sun was shining like a congratulation.
the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.
To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.
People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.