When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
I gave you the best of me.