Kindness begets kindness evermore.
Despair often breeds disease.
To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.
Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.