Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.