Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

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.

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

There are as many sorts of women as there are women.

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

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.

It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.