Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.

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.

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

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.

How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

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.