If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.
Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.
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.