Autumn is no time to lie alone

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.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

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.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.