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

There is more here than meets the eye.

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

How strange a thing is the heart of man!

It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed

It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.

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.