The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.