Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.