Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report.

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.

Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report.

You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.

The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.