Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around.

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.

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.

Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.