... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.
A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.