It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

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

I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

Things are achieved when they are well begun.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.