When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.