Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

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.

One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone.

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.

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