Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.