Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.

Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover.

Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.