Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

“‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to k…”

“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the c…”

“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good a…”

“Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would…”