A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.

I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.