All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?

Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.