Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.