If there is a God, he is a malign thug.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Children have but little charity for one another's defects
I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.
If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.