Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.
Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.
The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred
Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.