We are what we repeatedly do.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.