Charles Dickens

We forge the chains we wear in life.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.