The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.
Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.
Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.
The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.
In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.
If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.