His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.