Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.

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 in general the unexplored that attracts us.

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

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.

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.