The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.
You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.
a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.