Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.
Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
Polite beggary is too common.