Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.