Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end.

When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all.