Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

To speak of love is to make love.