• The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.455