And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.