When you first saw the light of this world you were crying, and your
friends were full of joy;--Live, so, that when you die, your friends
will cry and you will be full of joy.
1014
Of joys departed,
Not to return, how painful the remembrance!
--_R. Blair._
1015
I cannot speak, tears so obstruct my words,
And choke me with unutterable joy.
--_Otway._
1016
Joy when it's shared, its pleasure doubles,
And sorrow, loses half its troubles.
1017
_Johnson_: "It is commonly a weak man who marries for love." We then
talked of marrying women of fortune; and I (Boswell) mentioned a common
remark, that a man may be, upon the whole, richer by marrying a woman
with a very small portion, because a woman of fortune will be
proportionally expensive; whereas a woman who brings none will be very
moderate in expenses. _Johnson_: "Depend upon it, Sir, this is not true.
A woman of fortune, being used to the handling of money, spends it
judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first
time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws
it away with great profusion."
--_Boswell's Johnson._
1018
Never risk a joke, even the least offensive in its nature and the most
common, with a person who is not well-bred, or possessed of sense to
comprehend it.
--_La Bruyere._
1019