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.

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

There is more here than meets the eye.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

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.

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

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

Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

In Damascus:poems become diaphanousThey’re neither sensualnor intellectualthey are what echo saysto echo . . .

Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.

She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.

Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.

Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.

Mistakes can occur during hostilities.