The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.
