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.

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

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

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.