Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.