An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.