You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!