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.

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.

He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

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.

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

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.