Troubles never come singly.

Do any of us understand ourselves? all the different selves that each of us is?

Troubles never come singly.

kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.

Grumbling, as things are at present arranged in this world, does not always, nor I might say often, do good.

Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.