Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

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.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

There is more here than meets the eye.