There's looks as speaks as strong as words.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.

Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.