A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe

Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.