Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!