I tell you none of those horrors, when they really come, will affect you as you fancy they will.

The joys we expect are not a quarter so bright, nor the troubles half so dark as we think they will be.
Bankruptcy coming is one thing, come is quite another: and no heart or life was ever really blighted at twenty years of age.

The love-sick girls that are picked out of the canal alive, all, without exception, marry another man, have brats, and get to screech with laughter when they think of sweetheart No.

1, generally a blockhead, or else a blackguard, whom they were fools enough to wet their clothes for, let alone kill their souls.

This happens INVARIABLY.