Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.

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

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

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.