It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Death is better than disease.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.