Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.