Quotes About Weathercock

My whole course of life," I observed, "has been desultory, and I am unfitted for any periodically recurring task, or any stipulated labor of body or mind. I have no command of my talents, such as they are, and have to watch the varyings of my mind as I would those of a weathercock.

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple!

At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.