Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

Grief alone can teach us what is man.

I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.