When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.