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

“what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and ar…”

“Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my …”

“We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and acci…”

“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I h…”