It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.
The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.
Love is full of imagination.
Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.
Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.