Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.
Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world
I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe
Women--wives and mothers--are the same everywhere.
I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.