Well I've had a happy life.
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.