The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you. - Anthony Trollope

I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language.

There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.