Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriages make her look like a public building.
二十年的爱情让女人犹如一片断痕残壁，但二十年的婚姻则让她好似一栋公共建筑。
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
A good book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.