Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

She who means no mischief does it all.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.