The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.