There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.