Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.
I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.
What goes around comes around like a hool-a-hoop.
We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.