It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.
How strange a thing is the heart of man!
Autumn is no time to lie alone
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.
Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.
Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.