Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

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.

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

There is more here than meets the eye.

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

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.

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.