If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.

• A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
• Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
• The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
• If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.
• The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.