War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain and that is to increase taxes.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Opera next to Gothic architecture is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.