The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.
Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.
One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.
Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?
Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.