I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

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?

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

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

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

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.