There is more here than meets the eye.

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

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.

Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

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.

The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.