We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.

Why wait for your happiness to come from your future blessings, when this moment already has all you need to live happily?

Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things.

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.