Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.

The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.