Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.