Humor is the mistress of tears.
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.