There is more here than meets the eye.

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.

How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

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

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

In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.