Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.