Früher war selbst die Zukunft besser.

I really would have liked to love, but I didn’t trust myself to allow it.

Today is the good old times of tomorrow.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

I should like you to consider this letter as a resignation; I want to resign as one of your most studious and faithful admirers.