Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

If you trap the moment before it's ripe The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe, But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Circumstances do not make the man they reveal him.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody before it was actually verified.

Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert.

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