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.

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

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.

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

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.

It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed