“Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.”

“Alas; they had been friends in youthbut whispering tongues can poison truth”

“For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really operate. In those times, we learn the hardest lessons. To coin a few phrases, there are none so blind as those who will not see... and sometimes, the sweetest kittens have the sharpest claws.”

“Let those love now who've never loved; let those who've loved, love yet again.”

“As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.”

“To find the people who've became truly sane, seek among those who've managed to do without sanity.”