The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.
Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.
Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.
In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.
The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.