Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.