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

O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.

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

To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.

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.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.