The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. Such is the pyre, such is the offering; but the ethereal spark must come from heaven, that lights the sacrifice.

How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

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.

The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.