Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.

Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.

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.

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

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