Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.
It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.