It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.