We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.
Social sorrow loses half its pain.
There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.
It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.
The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.