Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.