If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
Miracles are God's coups d'etat.
Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.