It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?