A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

To stay youthful, stay useful.

Health is my expected heaven.

Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.

You are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I was fill'd with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time...Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you.