Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
All heiresses are beautiful.
For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.