| A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. |
| If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst. |
| The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. |
| Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. |
| The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling. |
| A man's silence is wonderful to listen to. |
