Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.
Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.
What the Man-Moth fears most he must do.
Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.
Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.
He dispensed starlight to casual moths.
After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.
Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.
Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!
