Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report.

The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.

Autumn is no time to lie alone

There are as many sorts of women as there are women.

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.