“Sweets to the sweet.”

Gertrude says this about Ophelia right after she commits suicide.

Gertrude is saying in this that only sweet things should happen to sweet people and that Ophelia really shouldn’t have died. This applies to our world today because we most often hope for the best for the people who have been nice to us. When someone isn’t very nice to us we usually don’t care very much what happens to them. We also are usually sadder when sweet people have losses to because we feel they deserve only the best.