“Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth
“The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat
“In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youth