Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

Autumn is no time to lie alone

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

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

No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.