She saw shrewdly that the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.