Consolation

Depend upon it, you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere— and those evil-minded observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves.

— Consolation

For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.

— Consolation

Feeling does not succeed in converting consolation into truth, nor does reason succeed in converting truth into consolation.

— Consolation

Love is not consolation, it is light.

— Consolation

Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

— Consolation