Autumn is no time to lie alone

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.

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

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.

Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.