Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

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

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion. But this experiment is very dangerous. Those who recommend it are confident that so long as resentment is groundless one need only suffer it in silence and all will soon be well. I have observed however that this is by no means the case.

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

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

There is more here than meets the eye.