Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.

Dead we become the lumber of the world.

any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

Late children are early orphans.