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

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.

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.

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.

There is more here than meets the eye.

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

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